Improvement in roofing compounds



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

AMASA H. TYLER, OF MISHAWAKA, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN ROOFING COMPOUNDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 176,497, dated April 25, 1876; application filed March 16, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, AMASA H. TYLER, of Mishawaka, county of St. Joseph, State of Indiana, have invented a certain Roofing Oompound, to be used for roofing, forming gutters, stopping leaks in roofs and around chimneys; and it consists in a composition formed by mixing hydraulic cement (or water-lime), linseed-oil, mineral paint, japan, asphaltum, water, and sand, spread on heavy sheeting as a basis.

To prepare this composition take twenty pounds (20 lbs.) mineral paint, twelve pounds (12 lbs.) hydraulic cement, (or Water-lime); sift both, and add four (4) gallons of water; mix thoroughly; then add two (2) gallons of boiled linseed-oil; mix; add two (2) gallons of japan. two (2) gallons of asphaltum; mix 5 add six (6) gallons of boiled linseed-oil, or a suffi- AMASA H. TYLER. Witnesses:

JOHN DIXON, A. HUDSON. 

